The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America

Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, is an expert on racial grammar in everyday life. Racial grammar is as important as all the visible practices and mechanisms of white supremacy. Join us for a discussion of why we must understand how it works in order to fight its poisonous effects. The event is sponsored by the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences; Department of Political Science; Center for Multicultural Education; Faculty Senate Speaker Series Fund; Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology; Sociology and Criminology Student Clubs (Northern Iowa Student Government); Campus Coalition Builders; Liberal Arts Core; Department of History and Global Studies major.